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*Deciduous shrub or small tree up to 13 m tall; bole up to 40 cm in diameter; bark surface smooth and pale grey, with numerous lenticels; twigs glabrous, dark grey, with pale lenticels. *Leaves alternate, pinnately compound with 10–16 leaflets; stipules minute; petiole and rachis flattened, 4–11 cm long; petiolules 1–1.5 mm long; leaflets alternate, oblong-obovate, (9–)15–30 (–50) mm × 7–15(–20) mm, unequal, glabrous, pinnately veined. *Inflorescence a panicle, often many together in dense and complex clusters, branches up to 4 cm long, many-flowered. *Flowers bisexual, regular, greenish white, sessile; hypanthium obconical, 0.5 mm long, resembling a pedicel; sepals 4, free, broadly elliptical, 3–3.5 mm long, concave, with obscure gland dots; petals absent; stamens 10, free, 5–8 mm long; disk prominent, yellow-green; ovary superior, c. 1 mm long, with stipe c. 1 mm long, glabrous, style slender, c. 5 mm long. *Fruit an indehiscent pod 4.5–6 cm long, with 3–5 mm long stipe, glabrous, pale brown, with a single apical seed and a large basal wing, with persistent sepals at base. *Seed oblong-ovate, flat, 13–15 mm long, reticulately veined, blackish brown.

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